Taittiriya Upanishad Bhashya Vartika
by R. Balasubramanian | 151,292 words | ISBN-10: 8185208115 | ISBN-13: 9788185208114
The English translation of Sureshvara’s Taittiriya Vartika, which is a commentary on Shankara’s Bhashya on the Taittiriya Upanishad. Taittiriya Vartika contains a further explanation of the words of Shankara-Acharya, the famous commentator who wrote many texts belonging to Advaita-Vedanta. Sureshvaracharya was his direct disciple and lived in the 9...
Verse 2.347
Sanskrit text and transliteration:
आनन्दः पर एवात्मा भेदसंसर्गवर्जितः ।
स एव सुखरूपेण व्यज्यते पुण्यकर्मभिः ॥ ३४७ ॥
ānandaḥ para evātmā bhedasaṃsargavarjitaḥ |
sa eva sukharūpeṇa vyajyate puṇyakarmabhiḥ || 347 ||
English translation of verse 2.347:
Bliss which is free from the association of diversity is the supreme Self. It alone is manifested in the form of happiness by good deeds.
Notes:
Whatever happiness a person experiences is the result of the good deeds which he has performed. And this happiness is not unsurpassable. It is not the highest. But the highest bliss which is free from all distinctions and which is identical with the supreme Self is unsurpassable (niratiśaya). But this does not mean that the former, that is, the happiness which is surpassable (sātiśaya), is different from the latter, the supreme bliss which is unsurpassable (niratiśaya). It is the highest bliss which manifests itself in the different forms of happiness such as joy, enjoyment and so on, assumed by the mind due to the past good deeds in the presence of objects such as a son, a friend, and the like.